Friends of The Foundation

Myer Chermside

Myer is a nationally recognised retail leader. The company has 65 stores throughout Australia and is committed to providing the biggest product choices for their customers.

More than 20,000 people work for Myer nationally and the company has a focus on providing high personal development for its staff.

Supporting The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation

The team at Myer Chermside have been supporting The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation through their staff giving program since 2005. Staff have chosen several charities to donate to each year and recently chose to dedicate their fundraising efforts to The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.

Staff member Emma Bickerton said they chose the Foundation because it was a local charity so they had an immediate connection and because of the specialist services at The Prince Charles Hospital.

Regular fundraising activities include raffles for Mothers’ Day and Easter, competitions such as guessing the number of lollies in a jar, and staff morning teas sponsored by each section. 

Since 2005, staff at Myer Chermside have raised $17,000 to support medical research through The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.

Q Invest

Q Invest is a Queensland-based financial planning business, jointly owned by QIC and the trustees of QSuper. The company was established to provide financial planning services to the members of QSuper and employs more than 100 staff at offices in Brisbane CDB and Chermside, as well as Queensland regional centres. Each year more than 10,000 Queenslanders who are, or have been, employed in Queensland's public sector rely on Q Invest to help them make important financial decisions and reach their life goals.

Supporting the Foundation

As part of a five year partnership with The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, Q Invest has committed $25,000 to help tackle the biggest killer of Australians - heart disease.  This money will be used to support the development of BiVACOR, the fully implantable and self sustaining artificial heart being created by a team of researchers at The Prince Charles Hospital. When finished, BiVACOR will provide a safe and effective alternative to heart transplant and extend the lives of people, who through illness or age, are not eligible for a heart transplant.
 
The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation is tremendously proud of this partnership and looks forward to working with Q Invest to help Queensland become the healthiest state in Australia.

Suncorp

Suncorp is Australia’s sixth biggest bank and third largest insurer. Suncorp was originally a Queensland government owned company until it merged with QIDC and Metway Bank in 1996 to become Suncorp Metway. The government sold most of its shares over five years in a planned move to reduce its majority in the company. Suncorp merged with the Promina Group in March 2007. The company employs 16,000 staff, has 233 retail and business banking outlets, and 33 GIO agencies in New South Wales and Victoria.

Supporting the Foundation
Through the Volunteer Day Program, Suncorp staff volunteer at the strawberry sundae stands at the Ekka. In 2008, we had 1027 volunteers selling sundaes, 300 of whom were from Suncorp.

Nestlé-Peters

Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company. It has 265,000 employees and 481 factories around the world. Nestlé Oceania employs 5700 people in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

Supporting the Foundation
For more than 20 years, the Foundation has been running the Nestlé-Peters Strawberry Sundae stands at the Royal Brisbane Show (Ekka). This is our biggest annual fundraising activity. In 2008, we sold 160,000 strawberry sundaes and made more than $50,000 profit.